Song of the White Orchid
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Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Continental Trilogy.” Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) runs up against an impertinent Yamaguchi (representing the continent); not surprisingly, in the course of the film the woman comes around and realizes the benevolent intentions of the Japanese. In Song of the White Orchid Yamaguchi leaves Hasegawa, who plays an expatriate working for the railway, because of a misunderstanding. She joins a communist guerilla group plotting to blow up the Manchurian railway. Learning of the subterfuge that led to the misunderstanding, she renews her faith in Hasegawa—and by extension Japan—and tries to undermine the plot.
Cast

Yoshiko Yamaguchi

Kazuo Hasegawa
Kokichi Matsumura

Noboru Kiritachi

Hisako Yamane

Sadao Maruyama

Yoshio Kosugi

Etchan

Isamu Eto

Susumu Fujita

Kinji Fujiwa

Fumio Hara

Yoshiko Katō

Nijiko Kiyokawa

Yōyō Kojima

Hiroaki Kurahashi

Kokuten Kōdō

Ko Mihashi

Hideo Nakamura

Kenho Nakamura

Hideo Saito

Keiji Sakakida

Rikie Sanjō

Eitarō Shindō

Sanpei Tani

Katsumi Tezuka

Ken'ichirō Ubukata
